The Course of Time: A Poem, In Ten Books. The Seventh Edition. [Start of Fore-Edge Painting]

The Course of Time: A Poem, In Ten Books. The Seventh Edition. [Start of Fore-Edge Painting] 1828. Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and T. Cadell.

12mo.(4" x 6.5") 394 pp. Complete in one volume. The fore-edge shows what appears to be the start of a fore-edge painting, sketch. Full black pebbled leather with thick gilt rule framing an embossed design with a gilt harp to each board. Spine with five gilt decorated raised bands, gilt author/title to second compartment, blindstamp decoration with small gilt floral device centered in each other compartment. All edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Some foxing/spots to the first and last few pages, internally clean. Very little edgewear, corners lightly bumped and rubbed, extremities lightly rubbed in places, scuffed in others. Beautiful gilt dentelle turn-ins over marbled paper to the pastedowns. Lacking the page directly before the title page, perhaps just a flyleaf. Prior owner's name and year neatly at the head of the title page. A beautiful book, with what appears to be the start or sketch of a fore-edge painting hidden under the gilt, please see pic.

Robert Pollok (1798–1827) was a Scottish poet and minister best known for his religious epic The Course of Time, a widely read blank-verse poem exploring human destiny, divine judgment, and Christian morality, published shortly before his early death from tuberculosis.

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